Is it christmas time yet?

So roughly twice a day my son will ask if it's christmas time yet. I think he's figured out that he'll be getting presents when it's christmas. Either that or he's just happy to see his holiday choir come out of storage. Here's a movie of him, well not really conducting, but at lest coordinating the singing:

On a totally different note, I'm trying to freshen up my magic card trick skills. I'm doing this mostly by just carrying decks of cards around with me and practicing the basics. Hopefully I'll have a couple of tricks down by Thanksgiving. Audiences always make it more fun, but I don't want to bring anything out if I'm so rusty I ruin the trick. We'll see.

Finally, I'm reuploading the video to the last contest. Mostly because I went to review it and thought "This looks like a black bear and a puma fighting on a moonless night." Or, in other words, it's too dark to see anything. And though I'm not so happy with the video, much like most of what I do after a few days, I'm just going to fix the brightness and toss it in again. I'm sure I'll re-link to it when the better version is up.

More, after Thanksgiving most likely . . .

And then it was July

As predicted there won't a new Atomic Boy episode until next week. With the holiday and long weekend, I'm still not sure what day of the week it is.
So, July 4th was fun. Got to see family and set off fireworks. Fireworks are fun, the finale was great this year, mostly due to multi-shot packs that fired off what I would call display or professional quality fireworks. Next year should be even better.
So my son has been very energetic and cute this week. Last night in an attempt to get me to stay and snuggle while he fell asleep we had this conversation:
Him: I have a better daddy.
Me: What?
Him: I have a better daddy.
Me: Who's your better daddy?
Him: You, I love you daddy.

Yeah, so he got extra snuggling.

Work stuff has been light this week, I think because I'm not chasing / pushing real hard. We'll see if that results in stuff getting rushed next week or and overall slow down. I'm betting on a rush next week, especially since I'm thinking about 3 SCA practices. Ah, now everybody's excited because it's only an month to Pennsic. Attendance at practices is up and I'd like to take advantage of having different people to fight. Variety is a great teacher.

So not to go without any movie this week, here's a bit of what my son's been doing all this week:

As a note to the closing of the video, my son and I got matching shoes yesterday. And we have this routine we do where I say "I like your shoes" and he says "Thanks, I like your shoes too." And my wife hates that we're using different colored laces in the right and left shoes, but we think it's cool.